After Xiao Feng's birthday, the weather became colder and colder, and winter seemed to have come overnight.
Tian Xia was sleeping soundly when he heard Xia Wenyue say in surprise outside, "It's snowing! Wow, such a heavy snow!"
Xia Mian suddenly opened his eyes, and just as he was about to lift the quilt to look out the window, he was startled by the cold air that came in, and quickly shrank back into the quilt.
As a result, when she lifted the quilt, she accidentally lifted Xiao Feng's quilt, and the little guy shivered and woke up from the cold...
"Aunt?" The child rubbed his eyes and seemed to feel the cold, shrinking into the quilt.
"Children, don't get up yet," Xia Wenyue called from outside, "I'm going to add some coal to the boiler. You can get up after it's warm. Don't catch a cold."
Another big advantage of having a yard is that the heater has been installed. Although it is a very old-fashioned cast iron radiator, it is much better than the stove heating method.
Otherwise, they would have a miserable winter. In the original body's memory, the stove was not very warm, but it was very dirty. There was coal dust everywhere in the house, and the cracks between the fingernails were always black.
Thinking of that relief, Xia Mian couldn't help but shudder.
Xia Wenyue had never experienced a heater before, but after she learned how to make a fire, she realized the benefits. However, her generation was used to being frugal, so in order to save carbon, they were reluctant to use too much carbon. They just wanted to keep the house warm.
This morning was clearly the exception.
Xiao Feng also heard what Xia Wenyue said, and he shrank into the quilt again. After a while, Xia Mian felt a warm little foot reaching out and rubbing her arm.
Xia Mian grabbed it and asked, "What did I catch?"
Xiao Feng giggled and struggled. Xia Mian relaxed and threw off the quilt. The little guy quickly rolled into her arms, "Auntie."
"Yeah." The child's body was like a small stove.
"Come on, stretch and grow taller!" Xia Mian stroked him from head to toe. The child straightened his body and stretched lazily. After he finished, he laughed out loud.
Despite the biting cold wind, they snuggled up to each other in the warm bed, feeling a sense of happiness in their hearts.
After a while, Xia Wenyue pushed the door open and put a set of small cotton jacket and trousers on the radiator beside their bed. "It's very cold today. Change the child into thick clothes."
Xiao Feng turned over and lay on his stomach, sticking his head out to look at the cotton-padded jacket and trousers on the warm screen, "Mine."
"Yes, it's mine." Xia Wenyue said, "My aunt made it specially for you. It's very warm when you wear it."
Xiao Feng smiled.
The child rolled around in Xia Mian's arms for a while. The temperature in the room rose, and Xia Mian quickly put on his clothes, took the cotton jacket and trousers on the heating pad, and was warmed by the heat.
"Wow, it's so warm, put it on while it's hot!"
Xiao Feng quickly sat up and stretched his arms and legs to cooperate.
After putting them on, Xia Mian couldn't help laughing. The cotton-padded jacket and trousers with a red background and white dots were a testament to the fact that "girls are afraid of the cold". The child now looked bloated like a ball.
His little arms couldn't be kept close to his body and were sticking out at both sides, making him look more and more like a penguin cub.
Seeing his look, Xia Mian was very glad that Xia Wenyue was busy setting up the stall and didn't have time to make cotton-padded jackets for all of them. She only made one for each of the two little ones, otherwise she would have become as fat as a ball.
Mao Huizhu had already started cheering. Xia Mian pulled the curtains and saw a vast expanse of white outside.
Xiao Feng also looked out the window and exclaimed.
Even though he grew up in the north, Xia Mian still feels happy when he sees the pure world covered in snow every time it snows heavily.
Moreover, in the era of summer hibernation, such heavy snow is rarely seen in Yan City. Only when we see it do we realize that the metaphor of "goose feather-like" snow described in early textbooks is not an exaggeration at all.
Xiao Feng grunted and slipped off the bed, ready to go out and play with Mao Huizhu.
Xia Mian put on a hat and a coat for him, then put on another coat, and helped him cross the threshold with difficulty. He ran out swayingly, smiling.
The joyful shouts of children were heard from behind.
When Xia Mian went out, the snow on the ground was already above the ankles. The snow was still falling from the sky. Mao Zhishan was starting from the main house and shoveling a path for people to walk on to the doors of each room.
Xiao Feng chased Mao Huizhu and played with her in these small paths. From a corporate cub, they turned into two wobbly penguin cubs.
Xiao Feng was not used to the thickness of the cotton jacket and trousers. While running, his body tilted and he fell directly into the snow beside him.
He wanted to turn over, but his cotton-padded jacket was too thick. After struggling with his limbs for a long time, he failed to turn over. Instead, he lay on his back with his legs up in the air, unable to move.
Mao Huizhu turned around and saw his appearance, clapped her hands and laughed.
Xia Mian looked at him paddling with his limbs like a little turtle but still unable to turn over, and couldn't help laughing.
After hearing her laughter, Xiao Feng was no longer anxious. He turned his head to glance at her, then suddenly relaxed his limbs and lay down with his arms and legs spread out without moving.
Xia Mian walked over and saw the child looking at the sky with his big eyes. Large snowflakes fell on his body, face, and eyes. He seemed to think it was wonderful and smiled unconsciously, "So beautiful."
As if attracted by his enjoyment, Mao Huizhu ran over and rolled on the ground, lying next to him, and soon exclaimed "Wow", "It's really beautiful!"
"Really?" Xia Mian looked at the thick snow on the ground, as if tempting her to lie down...
After a while, four people were lying in a row on the snow in the middle of the yard, Xiao Feng, Mao Huizhu, Xia Mian and Mao Huilan.
When Ning Shaobai brought Chenchen in, Chenchen, wrapped tightly in a bag, was frightened and screamed, "Wow, uncle, they're dead!"
Ning Shaobai: …
"Not dead." Ning Shaobai put Chenchen down, "Hey, they're still moving."
This family really knows how to have fun.
Chenchen also staggered over to see what was going on.
Xia Wenyue came out after hearing the sound, and saw the scene on the snow. She looked around and picked up the broom next to her and threw it at Mao Huilan, "Go and sweep the snow for me quickly. Are you children too?"
Mao Huilan and Xia Mian jumped up and ran away, leaving the two little guys lying on the ground with their legs up in the air.
Chenchen laughed loudly.
But when Xia Mian and Mao Huilan came back after sweeping the snow at the door, the children lying in a row had become three, and they were not lying in a row, but rolling in a row.
That’s the advantage of a cotton-padded jacket. Although it’s heavy, you can play with it without worry.
The snow has been falling for several days in a row, so the kindergarten was closed and Xia Wenyue’s skewers stall was also closed. She now only sells sesame cakes.
Xia Wenyue's skill in making sesame cakes is indeed very good. After selling them together with skewers for a while, she has already attracted many regular customers. She only needs to set up the stall for an hour during school hours, and the rest of the time regular customers will come directly to her house to buy them, which is quite convenient.
When primary and secondary schools had their winter vacation, Xia Wenyue's pancake stall was also closed. Then Xia Mian and Mao Huilan became more serious and stayed in the study in the east wing all day, studying hard.
When they learned that Mao Zhishan had finished filming in Yan City and was leaving for City C, and Xia Wenyue was going to go with him, Xia Mian and Mao Huilan almost cheered.
"We'll leave the day after tomorrow." Xia Wenyue said, looking at the eye contact between Xia Mian and Mao Huilan and sneering, "I've signed you up for a winter vacation cram school. Go to class on time every day!"
Xia Mian said, "Auntie, no need. I can do all the papers the teacher gives out." The weather is so cold, it's so nice to stay at home. The classroom is definitely not as warm as home.
"Then go ahead and do it, or I'm afraid you guys will bring disaster to my family, not just ours, but other families as well."
Xia Wenyue snorted coldly, "Anyway, I don't trust you two. Go to class on time. When I come back, I will ask the teacher. If I find out that you guys skipped class or something..."
Both of them were too guilty to speak. Xia Wenyue still remembered the incident with the electric fan in Ning Shaobai's house.
When I first disassembled it, I was full of confidence. It was just a matter of a few small screws, and I didn't think it was difficult at all. But when I put it back together, I couldn't get the fan blades right...
The Mao family didn't have a fan, so Mao Zhishan didn't know how to install one. Xia Mian was helpless, and when he was about to secretly take the loose fans out to find someone to reinstall them, he happened to meet Uncle Li who was passing by.
Uncle Li knew that she had to go out and spend money to repair it, so of course he didn't mind, so he just took it away and installed it himself.
Then one time, he let the secret slip and Xia Wenyue found out. Xia Mian and Mao Huilan were slapped on the back and promised not to do anything naughty again.
But the fact is that Xia Mian is also a troublemaker and cannot be trusted at all.
Seeing that they were temporarily obedient, Xia Wenyue did not let down her guard and threatened them, "After the New Year, there will be a transfer exam. Be careful and I will give you one chance. If you fail, you can open a stall with me."
Before going to cram school, Xia Mian bought a wig of good quality. Now that the weather is cold, it is not so stuffy to wear a wig.
After being identified as a bad girl by Li Lizhen and Sun Yuexin at first sight, Xia Mian felt that her first step to start over in life was still worthy of great attention.
Moreover, winter vacation cram schools are different from regular cram schools.
The final exams had just ended, and the number of students in the cram school was two or three times the usual number. More than half of them would be her future schoolmates, and there might even be classmates from her previous class, so Xia Mian had to take it seriously.
The wig she bought is still a student-style wig. Firstly, it is shorter and easier to take care of. Secondly, when the weather gets hotter next year, the length of her real hair will be about the same, and the transition will be natural.
A beige woolen hat, a gray turtleneck sweater, and a down jacket underneath.
Xia Mian spent a huge amount of money to buy this jacket. Although it has no special style, it is much thinner than a cotton-padded jacket, so at least it doesn't look so bulky when worn. She added a wide belt in the middle, which immediately made it look fashionable.
Pair it with jeans and cashmere leather boots, and you'll be ready to look like a fairy with a slim waist and long legs.
Xiao Feng watched her transform successfully and clapped her hands, "Aunt is beautiful."
Xia Mian pinched his face and said, "In your eyes, even if my aunt is ugly, she is still beautiful. Let's go and find Aunt Ning."
After the winter vacation, Xiao Feng would go to Zhu Yuanhai to learn painting every two days.
At first, Xia Mian went with him twice. Zhu Yuanhai liked Xiao Feng very much. As his youngest disciple, Xiao Feng was also loved by several senior brothers and sisters. The key was that he was very talented, and everyone liked to take him to paint.
Xiao Feng felt like a fish in water there. Later, Xia Mian stopped going there. Ning Shaoyun would always take him with her when she went there, and they would come back together when they returned. Xiao Feng was also very happy.
Ning Shaoyun smiled when she saw her, "Whose little beauty is she? How pretty is she?"
Xia Mian turned around proudly, "Haha, I have to go to school, I have to leave a good impression on my classmates."
"Are you sure it's not a fake impression?" Ning Shaobai's voice came from behind, "Don't scare the students when it's exposed later."
Xia Mian took a deep breath and secretly warned herself that from today on, she would start to be a little fairy. She must control her temper and not get angry at will.
He turned around and said with a smile, "Don't bother Doctor Ning."
"Really?" Ning Shaobai raised his eyebrows.
Seeing Ning Shaobai staring at her wig, thinking of his subject, Xia Mian covered her head vigilantly and hurriedly told Xiao Feng, "Auntie has gone to class, you follow Auntie Ning."
She decided to avoid contact with those stumbling blocks on her road to becoming a little fairy recently, so as not to ruin her efforts.
Ning Shaoyun looked at Xia Mian's back as she quickly slipped away, and said to Ning Shaobai, "Why do you always tease her?"
Ning Shaobai smiled unconsciously.